News Outlets Circle Tablet — Several major news organizations are lining up behind a new tablet device from Samsung Electronics Co. built on Google Inc. software, in order to broaden mobile readership beyond owners of Apple Inc. popular iPad. — New York Times Co. and News Corp.'s Wall Street Journal …

Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite — Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. — In Lou Dobbs's heyday at CNN, when he commanded more than 800,000 viewers and a reported $6 million a year for “his fearless reporting and commentary,” …

A Force Of Nature — Forbes Magazine dated October 25, 2010 — Arianna Huffington has created a media upstart valued at $100 million. What's it really worth? — It's a balmy night in September, and the second floor of the Upper East Side town house of former Viacom ( VIA - news …

The Newsonomics of sports avidity — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — When The Sporting News began publishing, the telephone was barely 10 years old.

Naked Brett Favre Won't Make Money for Nick Denton — Gawker Media's Deadspin sports site says it will publish nude photos of Brett Favre today, along with some voicemails it says the quarterback left for a woman who is not his wife. — Which means that corner of Deadspin is going to be very, very popular today.

Art and News, Intersecting in the Digital Age — After steady assault from Twitter, Facebook and Blogger Nation, we have come to this: “The Last Newspaper.” Or so the title of the New Museum's big fall show seems to tell us. In reality the situation isn't quite that dire.

Google News Testing Twitter Integration With “Friends” — Google is testing a new feature that lets you connect your Twitter account to Google News. Some people are seeing a “Friends” box on the right hand side of Google News inviting them to do this. — The friends box asks you to enter your Twitter username and click “Save.”

France Halts Plans to Ban Remaining Ads on Public TV — In Struggling Economy, State Broadcaster's Revenue Needs Trump President Sarkozy's Political Priorities — LONDON (AdAge.com) — The French government has halted a move by President Nicolas Sarkozy to ban all advertising …

Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize — STOCKHOLM (AP) — Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. — The Swedish Academy said it honored …

When Digital Marketing Actually Works — Lessons from Web and mobile campaigns that yielded real-world business results. — What do you get for your digital marketing dollars? Figuring how much revenue or brand value companies are generating from their investments in digital media seems to be getting more and more complex.

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